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Vegetation to be Removed from the San Lorenzo River Levee

February 17, 2023March 5, 2023 slvpost.com0 comment

By Julie Horner The City of Santa Cruz Public Works has announced plans to remove vegetation from the 2.2-mile urban stretch of the San Lorenzo River — from the Highway 1 bridge to the mouth of the river, where it enters Monterey Bay. The river is bordered on either side by concrete levees intended to prevent flooding into the residential… Read More

Albino Redwoods: The Ghosts of the Forest

June 13, 2022June 30, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

Contributors to a Mighty and Interconnected Family By Gale McCreary It is a student, crouched in the shamrock-like oxalis plants on the shady redwood forest floor, who first alerts me to the mutant. With careful steps I approach the young man as he poses, one knee on his flattened blaick backpack, the other raised as a writing table for his… Read More

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Cigarette Butt Receptacles in Downtown Boulder Creek

April 12, 2021April 19, 2021 slvpost.com0 comment

By Karen Edwards Every year, tens of thousands of cigarette butts are collected at beach cleanups in Santa Cruz County. They are, by far, the most commonly found type of litter found on our beaches. Imagine how many more of them are in our rivers, roadways, sewers, and on sidewalks. Not only are cigarette butts litter and a fire hazard,… Read More

Ampibian Encounters California Newt San Lorenzo Valley

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Amphibian Encounters

April 11, 2021April 15, 2021 slvpost.com1 Comment

By Emily Pomeroy It’s that time of year again; our slick, slippery friends are out and about! Here in the Santa Cruz Mountains, we’re fortunate to live amongst a myriad of newt and salamander species that come out to say hello during the spring. In our county there are more than ten species of salamanders and newts and even more… Read More

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Thu-Sun through 6/30 Look. Act. Inspire. Sustaining and Expanding the Community of Naturalists in Santa Cruz County

April 1, 2021April 18, 2021 slvpost.com0 comment

The Norris Center for Natural History opened an in-person exhibit at the new San Lorenzo Valley Museum Felton branch location in the former library on Gushee Street. The exhibit will June 30. The exhibit – “Look. Act. Inspire. Sustaining and Expanding the Community of Naturalists in Santa Cruz County” – displays key naturalists in SCC, featuring Fred McPherson who had a strong impact… Read More

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Commentary: Support for Resolution Against PG&E

December 1, 2020December 12, 2020 slvpost.comCZUFire, environment0 comment

Your speedy endorsement action is needed to support the proposal of Supervisor Bruce McPherson and Ryan Coonerty: ‘Resolution to support the County of Santa Cruz Filing a Formal Complaint Against PG&E with the CPUC’ Your response of support will show your PG&E tree removal concerns to the Board of Supervisors. PG&E has applied tree removal methods that are investigated by CalFire… Read More

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Forest and Habitat Explored

November 10, 2020December 7, 2020 slvpost.comredwoods0 comment

By Zane Moore White ash blankets the forest, in some places even up to a foot thick. Much of the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains, in areas that receive the most rainfall and have the highest biomasses—mainly the old growth redwood forests of Big Basin—were burned. Sadly, based on recent satellite imagery (worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov), it appears that most of this… Read More

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Why Trees (and Human Spirits) Endure

October 15, 2020November 9, 2020 slvpost.comBig Basin, bigbasin, climate0 comment

Nature builds resilience into our bark By Jane Mulcaster Girl Scouts Meg Mulcaster, Narya Bower, and Maggie Fry from Campbell troop 62301 explore fire-scarred redwoods outside the Big Basin Visitor Center in April, 2018. As the sun sank behind the trees at the upper campground in Big Basin State Park in early April 2018, the mercury dipped into the 40s,… Read More

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Update on Henry Cowell Redwoods Fire

June 11, 2020July 3, 2020 slvpost.comHenryCowell, wildfire0 comment

Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park wildlands fire Read More

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COVID-19: Just the Break the Earth Needed

June 4, 2020December 30, 2020 slvpost.comclimate, COVID-190 comment

In one month, a microscopic virus has provided the wakeup call that climate activists have been heralding for half a century. It is also providing an unprecedented disruption to entrenched habits that could spell hopeful relief for the rampant global pandemic that eclipses COVID-19: climate change. Read More